QMUL AI in Education Symposium: Intelligence, and Inclusion, Reimagined
How can educators and students connect, learn and flourish in an AI-enabled university?
Hosted by the Centre for Excellence in AI in Education, Queen Mary Academy, this event will bring together educators researchers, students, professional services colleagues, and external partners to explore how AI is reshaping learning, teaching, assessment and the student experience. Through the sharing of innovative practice, critical perspectives, and collaborative discussion, the symposium will provide a unique opportunity to reflect and engage with the affordances and challenges that AI presents for higher education.
Line-up
Professor Naomi Winstone
Dr Farrah Arrif
Jon Jackson
Professor Sushma Saksena
Dr Cassie Lewis
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Highlights
- 3 hours
- In-person
Location
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
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Agenda
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Welcome - Opening remarks
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Keynote
Surviving the Educational Apocalypse: What should we refuse to lose in the age of AI? “To understand…how to make sure that AI serves, rather than hurts, human interests, let’s start with the apocalypse. We can work backward from there.” -- Ethan Mollick (2024, p. 27) Generative AI has sparked urgent questions about assessment, integrity and learning, but it can also frame AI as a disruption to which higher education must simply adapt. Drawing on Ethan Mollick’s invitation to “start with the apocalypse”, this keynote asks what educational relationships, practices and values we would protect if AI transformed universities as we know them. It considers what is lost when assessment centres on producing artefacts, and what is gained when we foreground relationships between students, educators, knowledge and judgment. It also asks how AI-mediated feedback might reshape dialogue, trust and agency.
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